The genetic code is said to be degenerate because I can read in one direction.

遗传密码的这种性质称为简并性,我可以从一个方向去解读

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and helps me get where I'm going a little bit.

也给了我小小的帮助，让我朝着我要去的方向继续前进。

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So here in the G Minor Symphony we feel as--oh, it's so full of tension, angst,anxiety, perhaps passion, it's driving somewhere, and one of the things that's driving it is its accelerating rate of harmonic change.

在G小调交响曲里我们能感觉到，哦，音乐中充满了紧张，揪心，焦虑，甚至激情，这些感情正在向某个方向涌去，吸引它们的力量之一就是不断加速的和声变化率。

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